Kyro:-- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.

And my sympathy just went out the window.

That's rather cold.

Addiction is a helluva thing to go through. Also, from that article, it seems he's got some serious psychiatric pathology going on... sounds like he's got some flavor of psychosis/paranoid schizophrenia.

When he was on top of the musical world he didn't care enough about his bandmates or his audience to show up on time for performances and when he did finally show, incoherent as an adjective to describe his behavior and demeanor is a huge understatement. He took all that talent and goodwill and pissed it all away on drugs and I can't see how the SAD tag is at all deserved. As a matter of fact the tag should read DESERVED.

Nope. Still nothing. His contributions to music do not garner him sympathy when he squandered the fortune that so few are given the chance to earn. That goes for any rags-to-riches story. If your own poor decisions cost you your fortune, you earned it. And while addiction is without a doubt one of the biggest struggles a human being can possibly go through, I don't think anyone's ever gone into the drug scene as a celebrity not knowing the risk.

Nope. Still nothing. His contributions to music do not garner him sympathy when he squandered the fortune that so few are given the chance to earn. That goes for any rags-to-riches story. If your own poor decisions cost you your fortune, you earned it. And while addiction is without a doubt one of the biggest struggles a human being can possibly go through, I don't think anyone's ever gone into the drug scene as a celebrity not knowing the risk.

Except, you don't know you'll be an addict until you become one.

Addiction, psychosis, paranoia... these are pathologies rooted in biology, not totally under his control.

Addiction, psychosis, paranoia... these are pathologies rooted in biology, not totally under his control.

A thousand times THIS.

NOBODY wakes up one day and decides, "I think I'll become addicted to a substance that will kill me slowly, and along the way before I die a painful, horrible death, my continually eroding thought processes will manifest in my losing everything and everyone I hold dear to my heart, and just for kicks, make me a menace to myself and society at large, greatly increasing the chance that I will kill other people in the process. Yep, sounds like a winner. OFF I GO!"

If you know about addiction, you get this. If you don't know, you just don't know.

qsblues:Highway61Revisited: Except, you don't know you'll be an addict until you become one.

Addiction, psychosis, paranoia... these are pathologies rooted in biology, not totally under his control.

A thousand times THIS.

NOBODY wakes up one day and decides, "I think I'll become addicted to a substance that will kill me slowly, and along the way before I die a painful, horrible death, my continually eroding thought processes will manifest in my losing everything and everyone I hold dear to my heart, and just for kicks, make me a menace to myself and society at large, greatly increasing the chance that I will kill other people in the process. Yep, sounds like a winner. OFF I GO!"

If you know about addiction, you get this. If you don't know, you just don't know.

But he did make the decision to do drugs. Everyone knows the risk before the first hit.

MAYORBOB:When he was on top of the musical world he didn't care enough about his bandmates or his audience to show up on time for performances and when he did finally show, incoherent as an adjective to describe his behavior and demeanor is a huge understatement. He took all that talent and goodwill and pissed it all away on drugs and I can't see how the SAD tag is at all deserved. As a matter of fact the tag should read DESERVED.